Lacing-fastener.



PATENTBD JULY 3, 1906.

J. E. WARNER. LAGING FA$TENER. APPLICATION FILED HAY 2'7, 1905 INVENTOR Aifonzey rm: unnms PETERS can, wxsnmcrcu, a c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAClNG-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1906.

Application filed May 27,1905. Serial No. 262,685.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEROME E. WARNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lacin Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a pin or clip for holding shoe-laces to prevent them from coming untied and comprising a wire fastener fixed to the shoe adjacent the lacing and designed to pin the loop and ends of the knot, so that it will not become accidentally untied.

Various forms of the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a perspective view of one form shown applied. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof closed, and Fig. 3 is a side view thereof open.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, 6 indicates the shoe, and 7 the laces thereof. The device is fixed near the front of the shoe by means of a rivet 8, which extends through a loop formed in the bottom or base bar of the pin. This bar 9 terminates at one end in an upwardly-extending hook 10, adapted to receive the loop 11, formed in the upper bar, said upper and lower bars being connected by the spiral 12, which acts as a spring, tending to open the pin. The upper baris looped, as at 11, as stated, and terminates at the end at or about the middle of the bar in a downwardly-extending sharpened point 13, preferably located above the rivet. In the use of this form the loop and ends of the knot are placed within the pin under the point 13. The upper bar 11 is then pressed down and hooked under the hook 10. point 13 into and through the loop and the laces and holds the same until disengaged by unhooking the loop 11, which then springs up and allows the laces to be pulled out.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

This drives the 1. A lacing-fastener formed of a piece of wire bent to form opposite bars, said bars be- 4 5 ing connected at one end by a spring, one of the bars having means to fasten the same to the article having the laces, the other bar terminating at the end remote from the spring in a loop, and the first-mentioned bar terminating in a hook which is bent up toward the loop and is engageable therewith, and one of the bars having between its ends a pin-point directed toward the other bar.

2. A lacing-fastener formed of a piece of wire bent to form opposite bars connected by a spring at one end, one of the bars having fastening means to attach the same to an article, the other bar terminating at the end remote from the spring in an upwardly-proj j eoting hook the point of which is recurved or projects downwardly, and the first-mentioned bar terminating in a loop engageable under the hook, to hold the fastener closed, and also having a pin-point located substantially midway between its ends and projecting toward the other bar.

3. A lacing-fastener comprising a piece of wire bent to form opposite bars connected at one end by a coil-spring, one of the bars hav- 7o ing a fastening device to attach the same to an article, and also having an upwardly-projecting hook at the end remote from the spring, and the other bar being recurved to form a loop at its other end adapted to en- 7 5 gage said hook to hold the fastener closed, and extended back along itself and terminating in a point projecting inwardly toward the other bar.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JEROME E. WARNER. l/Vitnesses:

LOTTIE NEWBURN,

JOHN A. BOMMHARDT. 

